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Through Rajputana to Delhi; An Ilustrated Guide to the Districts Reached by the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway (Bombay to Upper India Through Gujurat and Rajputana) (Paperback)
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Through Rajputana to Delhi; An Ilustrated Guide to the Districts Reached by the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway (Bombay to Upper India Through Gujurat and Rajputana) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book
(without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.
1907 Excerpt: ...to their word, but addicted to robbing villages,
though not yet instructed in the use of the bow. Drona refused to
teach the young chief, saying it would be a sin to teach a Bhil the
use of the bow. So he returned to his country in sorrow, but he
made an image of Where Railways are yet unknown. Drona and did
homage to it and shot arrows before it until he became an archer."
But for the best description of a Bhil one must turn to another
description quoted in the same place. "A Bengali student being
asked to describe a Bhil in some examination gave the original
reply: --'The Bhil is a black man, but more hairy; he first shoots
you through the body with an arrow and then throws you into a
ditch; by this you may know theBhil.'" Essentially the Bhil is a
robber and he is not above carrying out the awful deeds described
by the Babu, but once he becomes your friend you have a friend for
life. As shikaries Bhils are unrivalled in India and many an
Englishman who has shot since childhood would like to be as certain
with his rifle as the Bhil is with his bow. "I shot an arrow in the
air It fell to earth I know not where." That is not the Bhil's
method. If his shot miscarries he hits a rock and breaks his arrow.
So he learns to hit and hits nearly every time. There is little
doubt that the Bhils were the ruling race in Western India before
the advent of the Rajputs, and though the variety of types shows
there must have been from time to time admixture of Rajput blood,
yet they remain apart, a despised race, intensely suspicious of
civilisation. In almost every habit the Bhil is distinct from the
Hindu. Instead of living in villages, gatherings of rude mud huts,
he lives in a house set apart perched on some rising spot and
surrounded with a sto...